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Fighting the Grim Destroyer.

Gen. M~cClernand, of Illinois, is a fighter.
Although in the seventies he Is still as full of
pluck as he was during the stormiest days of
the rebellion. A few weeks ago one OF the
GENERALS old army chums died at his home at
Springfield. Ameeting to draft suitable reso.
buttons of respect to his memory was attended
by a number of his friends, among them Gen.
McClernand. One Of the speakers, in eulo-
giving the deceased, said: "And so when death
CANT to claim him for its victim he met it rs
peacefully and calmly as the warrior who
wraps the drapery OF his couch about him and
lies down to pleasant dreams"
After the meeting adjourned the subject of
their conversation was tine immutable fate of
all men and the calmness with which their de
ceased friend had met the grim destroyer.
"That's the weak point In his character.
That's something 1 neverliked in him, /" said
Gen. McClernand, angrily.
The generals companions with some sur
prise asked, "Why not, general7'
because" said the veteran of a hundred
battles, al dom like this business Of meeting
death calmly. have no respect for any man
who does that. When death comes to me III
fight him, sir-rn fight him to the last. i
don't want any lying down to pleasant dreams
in mine. Death can't conquer me without q
struggle
The look ami tone that accompanied the
words satisfied the generals hearers that he
would act as ho had nid.-Washington Cor.
Chicago Tribune.
, 1887-04-30
REVEALING THE SPHINX.
THE GREAT STONE IMAGE OF EGYPT
UNCOVERED.

What Has Been Found Below the samd
MARVELLOUS Creation of Egyptian Art.
Mark TwaIn's APostrophe to the Sphinx.
What the ancient Egyptians intended to
represent by the sphinx with which they
lined the avenues approaching their temples
no man hath learned. 1t is supposed they
typiled the mysterious nature of the divin-
ity-the silent, enduring force of the mighty
spirit which moved all things and know
neither beginning nor end.
The great sphinx Of the pyramid has been
the problem Of the ages as far back as we
can penetrate. 1t Is believed to ave been
sculptured before the days of Cheops, tho
builder of the first pyramid. 1t Is an inner
itance from tine buried ages, On undeciphera-
BILE, mysterious thing at which all look with
awe and over which the wisest puzzle in vain.
The sphinx of Greek mythology were COM
binations of woman and lion, the head and
breast of the first and the body Of the second,
with wings added; but the Egyptian sphinx
were always male, always bearded and
capped, and the lions body to which the head
was attached Is wingless.
The great sphinx Of the pyramid originally
had a beard, but it disappeared under the
continuous mutilation which the face has I'M
dergone. Fragments of 1t nave been found
below.
The sphinx stands near the eastern edge of
the platform on which the pyramids stand,
with its face looking toward the Nile. The
face is % feet @ inches long, the whole figure
log feet long, 60 feet high before the present
work of uncoveing it from tho sand was
begun. Around the head 1t measures 102
feet. Mark Twain gives one a better idea of
its size than we can get from figures, when
he says the block from which it was carved
must have been as large as the Fifth Avenue
hotel in New York city before the usual
waste (by the necessities of sculpturel Of a
fourth or a half of the original mass was
begun. This species of stone Is harder than
iron-so hard that figures cut In 1t remain
distinctly defined although exposed to the
weather for 1000 or 5000 years. A hundred
or more years of patient toll wns necessary to
, 1887-04-30

HOSTILITY to unrestricted immigration
has become so general that any attempt
to organize a secret political movement
against it must fail for the very reason
that there is not the slightest pretext for
recourse to such means. Besides, n revival
of the so-called American or Know
Nothing party would object to immigra-
ton in itself, irrespective of quality or
character, and would probably reintro
duce religious intolerance as a factor in
politics. The progress made by anarchy
and socialism, though it proves to have
been greatly exaggerated, may be traced
to a foreign source, as nay also most of the
labor troubles which are made the occa.
sion of turbulence and become the fruit
full aus of industrial depression. Care
full Legislation by the states within which
our chief seaports lie may do much to
suppress the evil, which If suffered to 90
unchecked will bring about a reaction
productive Of needless, injudicious and
extreme measures Of relief.
, 1887-04-30

WHEN an Indian reservation has been
declared open to settlement. it certainly
works hardship to remove, by force. those
who have availed themselves of the per.
mission and settled on the lands, though
this action may not on their part have been
in strict compliance with prescribed rules.
This seems to be the case with the Whine.
bago and Grow reservations in Dakota,
concerning which exaggerated and sensa-
tional reports have been received. The
order to vacate has been enforced by the
presence of military, but has been made
in pursuance of a decision of the courts,
and, in this country, whatever a court de-
ores must be considered as right until re
versed, by a decree of equal weight, nc
matter how wrong it may appear or what
seeming injustice it may work.
, 1887-04-30


MALFEAsANcE in office seems to be Of
common occurrence in New York, yet it
is reported that great excitement has been
caused by the action of the Central Tax
payers Association in preferring charges
against the tax commissioners for failing
to assess properly lawfully subject to as.
sessmeut. amounting to an aggregate of
$50, 1000, 900. 1t is further alleged that
their neglect of duty has caused a loss to
the city of 81, 900, 900 in taxes. As the
New York laws provide that all property,
except church property to a limited
amount, shall be uniformly taxed at its
actual value, there is great inducement to
secure an assessment which may relieve
the individual at the expense of tie pub
lie
, 1887-04-30

The city of Louisville, though the
metropolis Of a great state and guarded
by a well organized police, is hourly
expecting an outbreak of mob violence.
Two negroes, imprisoned on the charge of
a most brutal murder, are in danger of
receiving their deserts without the laws
delay. The governor has called out state
troops and several companies guard the
jail. If they sre 30 minded, they can
easily preserve the,peace.
, 1887-04-30

This monstrous stone riddle OF the ages for
centuries has stood with the head, breast and
part of the back rising above the sand. Last
year Brugsch Bey began to have the sand
cleared away from the base Of the sphinx,
and now the paws, and the chapel which they
~inclose, the large granite stella and the gran
tie altar are visible.
The hind part of him is still buried, but his
true proportions can now be estimated. So
thoroughly were the lower parts hidden that
the Arabs in the middle ages believed it to be
a standing figure buried to the head in sand.
He now stands revealed, a form instinct with
vitality, "the personification of the greatest
physical strength and the highest intellectual
force in repose, but alert and %vigilant." The
lower portion of the shoulders and paws are
covered with slabs of stone. Some OF these
are already displaced, and there Is danger
that If the paws remain uncovered much
damage will be done to them.
Mark Twain, IN his "Innocents Abroad"
has this p~oetical apostrophe to this mighty
relic of the art of an unknown age:
Tho great face was so sad, so earnest, 80 long
ing, 80 patient. There was q dignity not Of earth
In its mien and In its countenance q benignity
such as never anything human wore II was
stone, but 1t seemed %sentient. II ever image Of
stone thought, It was thinking. It was looking
toward the verge of the landscape, yet looking ut
nothing-nothing but distance and vacancy. 1t
was looking over and beyond everything OF the
present and far into the past. 1t was gazing out
over the ocean of time-over lines of century
waves which, further and further r~eceding, closed
nearer and nearer together and blended at last
into one unbroken tide away toward the horizon
OF remote antiquity. 1t was thinking OF the wars
OF departed ages; OF the empires it had seen
created and destroyed; of the nations whose birth
1t had witnessed, whose progress 1t had
watched, whose humiliation 1t had noted
OF the Joy and sorrow, the life and death, tho
grandeur and decay, of 5000 slow, revoly-
ing years. 1t was the type OF an at
tribute of man-of a faculty of his heart
and brain. It was Memory, Retrospection-
wrought into visible, tangible form. All who
know what pathos there is in memories Of days
that are accomplished and faces that have van.
ished-a.beit only q trifing score Of years gone
by-will have some appreciation of the pathos
that dwells in these grave eyes that look so stead
tasty back upon the things they knew before
history was born-before tradition had being
things that were, and forms that moved, In a
vague era which even poetry and romance scarce
know of-nnd passed one by one away and left
the stony dreamer solitary in the midst of q
strange now age and uncomprehended scenes.
The sphinx is grand In its loneliness; It is i'm
posing In its magnitude; 1t is impressive in the
mystery that hangs over its story. And there Is
that In the overshadowing majesty of this eternal
figure of stone, with its accusing memory OF the
deeds OF all ages, which reveals to one something
of what he shall feel when he shall stand at last
in the awful presence of God.
, 1887-04-30

FRoNTIER trouble between Germany
and Russia is reported from Paris, but
probably without foundation. France
would like to see something of the kind
happen just now and readily believes the
sensational report that a Russian sentinel
has been disarmed on the Silesian frontier
for attempting to prevent a German from
crossing the line.
, 1887-04-30
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sPmCIAbxsTs

We offer no apology for deyotlng so much time
and attention to THIS much neglected class OF
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services of the profession to which we belong
as many are innocent sufferers, and that
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Philanthrophist and a beuefactor to his race
thalthe surgeon or physician who by close APP
plication excels in any other branch Of his pro-
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Tor, has passed away.
YOUNG MEN
Who may be suffering from the effects OF youth
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MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
There are many men Of the age OF 80 to 60 who
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, 1887-04-30

The Union Pacific has joined the other
roads in asking a suspension of the long
and short haul clause. The commission
seems very accommodating in the matter
as it properly should be until the compa-
MICS shall have a chance to he heard.
, 1887-04-30

If IT be true as stated on high autho-
rity4 hat a single company has been COM
PEELED to add 10 per cent to its fares to
meet the deficit caused by free travel.
railroad travel will soon become cheaper,
unless the commission suspend the anti
pass clause, which no road seems anxious
fnr IL IN do
, 1887-04-30

RHODE ISLAND is the only state in
which a property qualification for suffrage
exists, and the constitution requires a
three .ifths vote for its amendment. The
Democrats favor the abrogatiou of the
illiberal and un-Anerican restriction, but
are not strong enough as yet to be able to
effect its repeal.
, 1887-04-30

AFTER fifteen years trial of repression
OF every kind in Alsace- Lorraine the
German government is about to proclaim
martial law outright. 1t needs but this
to establish the system by means of which
in fifty years Russia has succeeded in
completely reconciling the Poles to Mos
coyite rule.
, 1887-04-30

BISMARCK will come out of the French
difficulty with credit, if he secures the
dismissal of an obnoxious frontier officer
merely by arresting and then releasing
him on condition that he shall be dis
charged.
, 1887-04-30

DAILY LEADER. all transient advertisements
u cents per line each insertion, G consecutive
! IsertonS . cents per line one month 5 cents
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Minor mention notices. among local reading
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WEEKTY LEADER, all transient advertise
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month, 20 cents per line SIX months 10 cent
DER line one year 8 cents per line. Marriage
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, 1887-04-30
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, 1887-04-30

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, 1887-04-30

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, 1887-04-30

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, 1887-04-30

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, 1887-04-30
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u Over half a Million Distributed.
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, 1887-04-30

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TmR saaxIpG. TKoIBLEs.
Twesye Negroes and one white Nan
HE'D.

CHICAGO, July 5.--Particulars Of the
recent riot at Oakndge, Morehouse par
iss, are last belug received. The htst
REPORTS, 10 VIII be remembered, stated
that a party OF negroes hred on the 9th
Gers who were taxing prisoner 10 lall,
wouudlng two OF the posse. After the
shooting this p,rty Of negroes hid 10 a
cabin near by. The officers traced them,
aud oo approaching the cabin to effect
their arrest we're tired upon again, and
Gsorge Higginbotham was instantly
killed and three other constables serious.
ly wounded. During the hight six OF the
negroes in the cabin were killed, but 1t
appsars that was not the end ot the fatal
ities. Four negroes managed to escape
from the cabin aud were subsequently,
captured and lynched. Monday last two
other negroes we're captured and jailed,
and next day the citzsus held a meeting
and determined TO hang one OF them, al
lowing the other to 10 by proving hun
innocent. The same day another negro,
supposed TO he connected with the gang
of assassins vss caught and hanged on
the bank of the river near town, aud the
end is not yet, As hunt is being kept up
for more memse,s of tho party.
The deaths 30 far number thirteen
twelve negroes aud one white man.
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The police in Washin1 ton have arrested
q crank named Benedict krebs. who
labors under the impression that the
President has defrauded him out of six
hundred millions of dollars. He threat
sssd to square accounts with the Presi-
dent by blowing the top of his head off
with shotgun when he attends church.
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Company was burned to the ground last
night. Several adjacent buildings were
badly dar. ,eed snd the losses will aggre-
gate 81, 800 000 Nicholas Rose was
crushed to death under a falling wall.
An unknown man suppos to he an en-
lloye fell from the 4th story roof next
door aud was killed Joe Gardner re-
ceived fatal injuries in like manner.
Several fireman received painful injuries
and it is feared bodies will be found in
the ruins.
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H9. MccLY<A's CASE.
orders Sent from Rome 80 ExcOmmu-
Aic2fe MIN.

ROVE, July S. riders have been sent
10 the Archbishop of New York to ex
comsunicats Rev. DR.. Mc'ilynn, aud
publish the dscree of accommodation ia
the journals.
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1ELECRAPHiC NEWS.
THE ENT0MsED MINERS.
The Air Pipe krsken-No Connection
Yet Mxde-Ali Mspe Of xcseaisG she
Men Alive Abandosed.

The Air Pipe Rrsken--No Cenneetien
Yet Msd~-Ali Mspe or Ke.euisg she
Men Alive Abandescd.
VIRGINIA, New, July 5.-All hope OF
xndiug aiivs the six men Imprisoned in
the Best l. Bslcher drift has now depart
cd from the hearts OF our people. 1t was
Yesterday morning ascertained, by de-
scendng the Bonner shaft to a depth OF
90 feet below the 1870 level to the top OF
the caved ground, which hills the shaft
TO a height OF 10 ieet above the 100
station, tnat the compressed air pipe had
been broken. Tae break doubtless oc.
Cured at the time vi the cave OF the
shaft which took place shortly after the
fire broke out. Theu I. will be seen that
none OF the air ss,,t dewn through the
ruips could have oac4sd the men. Ali
AIR sent through 1t was d.scharged Iato a
a shaft at the top OF the cave as
was also the water ssnt through II
with the air IN hope that 1t was
reaching the entombed men. Ga finding
that the pipe was brosen the air com
pressor was stopped. IL IS now thought
that the men wsee killed by gas almost
At once the night OF the tire, aud the only
consolation Is taat their death was abso-
lutely painless.
The work Of rsscuing the party Is stiii
beiug vigorously pushed forward, though
not mac amoug the workers has the
ellghtest hope Oh tiuiiug the men alive.
They are now drifting both north aud
south from the bottom OF the incline
wInze. Several blasts we're fired yester-
day in beth dritr. Last night they
were engaged IN Tasting out IN order to
get to the ends of the twelve foot holes
that had been bred without the hoped
for rs.slt. Whss they have faced up to
the end of these long holes they wall
again reach ahsad with their long drills.